Something Good in Me

Night it seeps in through the cracks

Of this highway byway wooden shack

No one’s made this home for years

These walls have dried a 1000 tears

We stopped in here just me n her

Running from the debt and failure

Well I lie here almost gratefully

This dirt floor is my sanctuary

My lady’s gonna stay with me

Does she see somethin’ I don’t see?

Does she see somethin’ good in me?

Was flying high not long ago

A peacock in a field I’d sown

But the gambler it took hold of me

The season’s change I didn’t see

Her face went thin like a witch’s broom

As I told the truth ‘bout wrack and ruin

Well I lie I here almost gratefully . . .

She’s combing dust right outta her hair

Sayin’ our field’s now embers n sparks

But she knows I meant the best for us

Cause me I bear a generous heart